IndieReader Approved (5 stars) and Readers' Favorite Recommended (5 stars)Drug-addicted Mutilators possess a book of secrets that a master scholar needs to protect his people.Vicious Skinweavers threaten to flay the pontiff’s abducted nephew.Inquisitors traumatize a princess’s mind, rendering her useless at the very moment she is negotiating an essential alliance.Mysterious Sea People raid coastal settlements to increase their stock of slaves.Only American RangerKnights, post-apocalyptic paladins, have the skills and weaponry to help.The Andatunisian emir orders his inexperienced son, Prince Asem, to accompany the RangerKnights.

Traveling in anti-gravity skimmers, they journey to the Mutilators’ deep winding caverns, a Jihadi-oppressed downtrodden town, the pontiff’s foreboding basilica, New Reykjavik’s colorful market and the Skinweavers’ mountaintop lair.As Prince Asem grows accustomed to the American ways and closer to RangerKnight Lovell Weir and his close-knit warrior-companions, he is torn between his royal duty and his desire to become an American.RangerKnights is an action-packed tale of survival, political intrigue, and cross-cultural love and friendship in a diverse post-apocalyptic world.THE BOOK OF RUIN SERIES
BOOK 1: The Book of Ruin (Winner of the 2020 Indie Reader Discovery Book Award for Science Fiction)
BOOK 2: The Flashfall Sword (Recommended by Indie Reader and Readers’ Favorite)BOOK 3: RangerKnightsBOOK 4: The Last SkinweaverBOOK 5: In the Time of the FlashPraise for RangerKnightsRangerKnights brings together everything we've learned from the first two books of The Book of Ruin series for an adventurous, exciting experience.

With such outstanding worldbuilding, it's easy to feel as if you've really visited the locations in the book.

I am always in awe of Hladky's brilliant character development that is so well done, I find myself missing the characters after the book ends.—Christie Stratos, award-winning author